Publisher

PUBLISHER, SARAH CRICHTON BOOKS/FSG
2004-2019

Among the critically-acclaimed fiction and nonfiction published during the imprint’s fifteen years: A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah; The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick; Jason Goodwin’s Edgar-award winning mystery series, The Janissary Tree; award-winning naturalist/activist Terry Tempest Williams’s The Hour of Land; Angie Kim’s hit debut, Miracle Creek and Dominic Smith’s breakout, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos; Leanne Shapton’s auction catalogue Important Artifacts and Personal Property...; Colin Harrison’s You Belong to Me; David Yaffee's Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell; Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel’s The Good Soldiers; and five of Cathleen Schine’s novels, including The Three Weissmanns of Westport and The Grammarians. Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, New York Times reporter John Leland’s Happiness is a Choice You Make, Brigid Schulte’s Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time, and Barnard president Debra L. Spar’s Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection weighed in on pressing issues, while historian Anna Whitelock made 1558 accessible in her PEN award-winner, The Queen’s Bed: An Intimate History of Elizabeth’s Court.

PUBLISHER, LITTLE, BROWN
1996-2001

I had the joy of publishing Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point; David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest; George Stephanopolous’s All Too Human; and several books by David Sedaris and Michael Connelly. Among those I also edited: JoAnn Beard’s The Boys of My Youth; Gary Giddins’s Bing Crosby; Pete Hamill’s Why Sinatra Matters. I was editing Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones when I left L,B.

WRITER

I have co-authored several books, among them: A Mighty Heart, with Mariane Pearl, on the killing of journalist Danny Pearl, which became a film with Angelina Jolie; and Breaking Ground, with architect Daniel Libeskind. I worked closely with Madeleine Albright on her memoir, Madame Secretary. I recently contributed an essay to the collection The Bitch is Back called “The Coming of Age: Sex 102,” which The New York Times Book Review singled out as “A tour de force of comedy and poignancy.”

MAGAZINE EDITOR

NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE, 1988-1996 Began as Arts Editor; ended as one of “The Wallendas,” Assistant Managing Editor responsible for the Back of the Book.
SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE, 1984-88 Began as Articles Editor; ended as Editor-in-Chief.

PERSONAL NOTES

A.B. Harvard/Radcliffe. Lead singer for the little-known band, The Savage Detectives. Brooklynite since 1986. Mother of writer Eliza Grace Martin.